Uh, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Wipers and Curtis Mayfield, like roots era Curtis Mayfield.

Cool, and what’s your favourite memory of the music industry?

We got to play one time in Quebec city, to say 55, 000 people. And you’re on the stage just staring at like some massive gathering. Everyone’s head in the same place watching a band play, just like there’s something about that, you just, I feel like that’s the peak of being alive you know. That’s the zenith of living, you know just looking at that.

I love it! Now, if all of the bands equipment was on fire , what one piece would you save and why ?

Probably be one of the guitars, probably be like Wade’s. Wade plays a 56 Les Paul Junior. I think that’s probably the most irreplaceable guitar, but I mean you can probably get another one somewhere. But it was pretty expensive, I would imagine. Or one of Dallas’s Hollow bodies those are pretty nice to. I dunno, probably, one of those.

Aww, you’re lovely, now, if you could only listen to one CD, for the rest of your life, which one would it be?

Oh my God, this is a massive question. Its like picking your favourite child, if you have 10,000 children! ( laughs). Uh I’m just gonna throw it out there,  Reigning Sound. There’s a band called Reigning Sound from Nashville, they play garage rock. They did an album called Too Much Guitar, it is exquisite from start to finish.

So listen, I want to ask you a random question, what’s the most stupid purchase you ever made.

Um, I’m trying to think, I bought a tarantula encased in glass at a gas station in um,uh New Mexico one time. It was just like this tarantula and we named it, uh  believe we named it ‘Kyle Bishop’ and we made it our tour mascot. That was kinda a stupid purchase.

Brilliant, we also ask everyone we interview, to come up with a question for the next person that we interview. And Shinedown, wanted to know, do you fold or crumple, as in when in the bathroom, do you fold or crumple the toilet tissue ?

Crumple, I make like a ball out of it kinda thing. I don’t necessarily like fold it over.

You’re a crumpler ..

Im a crumpler yeh

Cool, so a question from you for the next random band.

Ok…Um.. if you were going to die and you had to eaten by one mythological beast, what mythological beast would it be ? It could be a unicorn, it could be a dragon could be the mythical oingo boingo, it could the chupra cabra who knows… Which would you choose?


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